Technology

Female entrepreneurs who apply for loans online and are evaluated by an automated system get a bigger share of online credits than they do traditional in-person bank loans. It could be a sign that automated credit decisions are fairer.

Tim Pawlenty, the head of the Financial Services Roundtable and former Minneosta governor, sent a letter Monday to President-elect Donald Trump requesting that he take steps to harmonize government cybersecurity requirements.

When the financial services industry started paying attention to blockchain technology, many companies, seemingly as a reflex, sought patent protection for their ideas.

Alipay's fast growth is partly attributed to the huge size of the Chinese market, but it also deploys strategies that can serve as an example for mobile wallets in other parts of the world.

As long as there has been mobile commerce, there have been calls for different stakeholders to share competitive turf in the name of universal acceptance.

Tim Pawlenty, the head of the Financial Services Roundtable and former Minneosta governor, sent a letter Monday to President-elect Donald Trump requesting that he take steps to harmonize government cybersecurity requirements.

A mobile payments app that launched last year for parking lots in Toronto is now available for all parking spots on the city's streets, with PayPal as the newest payment option.

Montreal-based Pivotal Payments, which supplies all sizes of businesses with payment processing services, has named Edward Garcia to the new post of chief operating officer.

The appeal of information pathways such as the internet were seen as possibly bringing about a "comeback" for artificial intelligence in financial services — in the 1990s.

As retailers, banks and technology companies continue to suffer data breaches, issuers and merchants need to take extra care when selecting payment vendors.